Notes on An African Orestes

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini (1970).
More than a curiosity but less than a fully realized work, Pasolinis 16mm sketch for a never-made film, transposing Aeschyluss myth of the first human tribunal to the Third World, is disarmingly casual but far from unstructuredthe essay form suited Pasolini better than his overblown glosses on Chaucer or The Arabian Nights.
Mon., July 11, 3 p.m., 2011